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Masked men from the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas SAID KHATIB / AFP

Demands for Hamas to disarm have been rebuffed. What next?

There are competing visions for Gaza, from a 'riviera' without Palestinians to a rebuilt enclave run by Palestinians for Palestinians. Until then, thousands are still being killed.

Amr Emam 25 April 2025
A man dressed as a clown entertains children at a makeshift school in a camp for displaced Palestinians in Deir El-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, on April 27, 2024. AFP

The clowns trying to bring joy to Gaza's traumatised children

Uncle Zezo, Uncle Mickey, and Dr Alloush perform in displacement shelters and hospitals, striving to restore fragments of a joy last felt in 2023. Al Majalla meets them.

Houssam Marouf 24 April 2025
A Palestinian child looks on as bodies of victims of Israeli overnight airstrikes in the northern Gaza Strip lie on the ground in front of the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahia on March 20, 2025. BASHAR TALEB / AFP

In Gaza, a child's silent farewell to dead friend pierces the silence of the world

Palestinian death is increasingly being seen through the lens of cold political calculations. The world's silence over Gaza's horrors has drowned out the desperate screams of its people.

Samer Abou Hawwach 16 April 2025

A 'Riviera' filled with Gaza's blood

Fares Garabet 14 April 2025
People hold signs as they participate in a protest in support of Columbia University student activist Mahmoud Khalil while a hearing takes place outside the court in Newark, New Jersey, on March 28, 2025. Kena Betancur / AFP

Trump wants to deport foreign students for what they say

He says his power over immigration overrides the First Amendment

The Economist 14 April 2025
Palestinian children suffering from malnutrition receive treatment at a healthcare centre amid widespread hunger in the southern Gaza Strip on March 4, 2024. Reuters

As a distracted world looks away, Gaza is being starved

Israel hasn't let in any food, water, fuel or medicine for over a month. Making matters worse, hospitals have been targeted, rendering them unable to cope with the constant influx of sick and injured.

Salem Al Rayyes 12 April 2025
Jordan's King Abdullah, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and French President Emmanuel Macron pose during a trilateral summit to discuss the situation in Gaza, at the Presidential Palace in Cairo, Egypt, April 7, 2025.

Have the Camp David Accords overstayed their welcome?

The 1979 peace between Egypt and Israel served its purpose for almost half a century, but the latter's 17-month-long onslaught on Gaza has thrown it into disarray. What now for the accords?

Khaled Essam Eleslamboly 07 April 2025
Palestinian journalists lift placards during a rally in Gaza City protesting the killing of fellow reporters Hossam Shabat and Mohammed Mansour in Israeli strikes a day earlier, at the al-Ahli Arab hospital on March 25, 2025. OMAR AL-QATTAA/ AFP

War in Gaza the ‘worst ever conflict for reporters’

A new report says Israel is waging an "unrelenting war on the press"

John Haltiwanger 06 April 2025
A Palestinian man hugs the body of a baby following Israeli overnight airstrikes in the northern Gaza Strip, at the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahia, on March 20, 2025. BASHAR TALEB / AFP

Unpacking Netanyahu's predictably self-serving return to war

Israel's coalition government contains far-right parties that do not want to see an end to the bloodshed in Gaza, so it is no surprise that bombs have started falling again

Salem Al Rayyes 20 March 2025

Netanyahu fulfils his promise to resume the war in Gaza

Fares Garabet 20 March 2025
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The UN is dead: Chemillier-Gendreau on the collapse of international law

13 January 2026

In an interview with Al Majalla, the prominent French jurist discusses Israeli and Western duplicity, their violation of international law, and why Israel bears the cost of Gaza's reconstruction

Elie Kossaifi
Opinion

Would a US strike on Iran hurt or help protesters?

11 January 2026

A strike could be disastrous for the protestors, as it could harden the regime's resolve and that of its still-large support base across the country

Bilal Saab
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The Donroe Doctrine and the new hemispheric order

12 January 2026

Pressure builds on Venezuela after Trump appoints himself 'acting president'. With Colombia, Mexico and Cuba seemingly also in the line of fire, they will be closely watching what happens in Caracas.

Stefanie Butendieck Hijerra
Yasser Al-Rumayyan, Governor of the Public Investment Fund, delivers a speech during the third edition of the Future Investment Initiative, in Riyadh on 28 October 2025. AFP
Business & Economy

Saudi Arabia loosens restrictions on foreign investors

12 January 2026

Scrapping foreign ownership caps and qualifying criteria will bring in more capital, with markets reacting positively to the latest reforms that build towards a more open country

Sharif Mohammad
Andrei Cojocaru
Politics

Trump’s war on CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood

18 December 2025

The US designates the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Lebanon and Jordan as "terrorist" groups, citing alleged support for "activities against Israeli interests in the Middle East" as the reason

Abdullah F. Alrebh

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